Newton PACE Analyst Job

Newton PACE Analyst (Job Number: 1310226)

Description

Newton Investment Management Limited is a London-based UK asset management subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. With assets under management of close to £50 billion, the company provides a broad range of award-winning investment products and services to individuals, pension funds, charities and corporations. This is across various different asset classes and strategies. Newton has offices in London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Jersey, New York and India. News and other information about Newton is available at http://www.newton.co.uk/.

We are currently recruiting a PACE Analyst to assist Newton business users in their day to day usage of Eagle PACE and PACE Plus, and to assist in the running of key system processes in the support of the two key customers, the client reporting and performance measurement teams.

Responsibilities

* To assist the PACE Administrators in monitoring the PACE Support inbox, offering guidance as required.
* To ensure the completion of all daily and monthly tasks from the control log.
* To act as a bridge between the technical and business teams in the resolution of queries.
* To engage with technical and business teams to ensure system enhancements and fixes are properly tested and implemented.
* To take a lead role in the investigation and resolution of system and data problems, offering strategic solutions to prevent recurrence.

Specifically -

Returns Data:

* Daily checks on data integrity:
* Total level returns
* Multistructure returns
* Missing returns
* Security tolerance breaches / corporate actions
* Monthly checks on data integrity:
* Dashboard checks

Triangle Sheet Data:

* PAT to Pace errors
* Triangle sheet errors
* Correcting triangle sheet data via backfills
* Investigating triangle sheets that won't open
* Security Data:
* Daily unclassified check
* Monthly unclassified via report exceptions
* Misclassifed or 'jumping' stocks
* Monthly newly traded report
* Creation and maintenance of dictionary structures
* Manual overrides via mini SRM
* Population of missing issuer ids

Index Data:

* Loading monthly equity index data, total level and constituent
* Committing index data at other structures
* Loading manual index data
* Updating lagged index data
* Monitoring custom benchmark build and failures and resolving
* Reporting:
* New fund set up
* Exceptions investigation and resolution
* Report maintenance
* Report scrubbing

Maintenance:

* Inception dates
* Business groups
* Performance scrubs
* Source maintenance
* New security types
* New transaction types
* Code translations
* Transferring performance history
* New FM and batch category set up

Upstream Systems:

* RM access
* Fee billing batches
* Fee billing terminations
* Client Zone permissions
* UAT

Projects:

Currently ongoing:

* Fixed Income
* Sovereign Bonds
* Cash Equivalents
* Charities Investment Reporting

Qualifications

Person Requirements

* Some relevant experience e.g. reporting, performance, investment ops, client services
* Logical / analytical approach
* Sql skill, or skillset that suggests candidate could learn it
* Good Excel skills – VLOOKUPS, macros
* Attention to detail
* Tenacity
* Curiosity – not just learning by rote

Primary Location: United Kingdom-United Kingdom-Greater London-London
Internal Jobcode: 51610
Job: Investment Management
Organization: Newton-HR06148

August 4, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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